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13 hours ago, Kingston said:

I can see them having attendance problems. 

For matches between MLS teams, who cares?  It’s a non-league match against a team you already play against. 

For many (most?) MLS markets, a Mexican team is not a draw just because it is a Mexican team.  We enjoy playing the best Mexican teams in the CCC when it matters, but not some random Mexican side for no particularly good reason.

So really it is just a handful of MLS markets in the southern states where the Mexican teams are a legitimate draw.  It is like somebody looked at Los Angeles and the Texas teams and thought hey let’s make a tournament that will work for them.

My hope is that this tournament fades away after a few editions.

I think the first step is they should simply double up the first MLS vs MLS match as both a Leagues Cup and MLS regular season match.  Reduces the schedule by a game, and ensures the attendance is whatever the market normally draws.

But it definitely does not look like the tournament is going the way anyone at either league envisioned.  Mexicsn teams struggling much more than I'm sure Liga MX thought, and the attendance not being where MLS thought it would be.  I still don't dislike the concept of it in general, but the execution definitely isn't there.

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5 hours ago, Watchmen said:

I think the first step is they should simply double up the first MLS vs MLS match as both a Leagues Cup and MLS regular season match.  Reduces the schedule by a game, and ensures the attendance is whatever the market normally draws.

But it definitely does not look like the tournament is going the way anyone at either league envisioned.  MLS teams struggling much more than I'm sure Liga MX thought, and the attendance not being where MLS thought it would be.  I still don't dislike the concept of it in general, but the execution definitely isn't there.

I'm not clear on what you mean by this bolded part?

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7 minutes ago, narduch said:

Montreal take on Atletico Ottawa's sister club. Its on TSN.

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Interesting that Waterman is wearing the armband. He's come a long way.

....from PDL....to CPL....to now captaining his MLS team as they take on Liga MX competition. 

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1 minute ago, Big_M said:

must win for a team that has looked really bad under courtois...new signings bugaj and pearce start

If you're firing your manager over a Leagues Cup performance, you should have already fired him and given the new manager the Leagues Cup to work on implementing his ideas in a few games that are less meaningful.

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12 minutes ago, Big_M said:

not to fire him or not

 

17 minutes ago, Watchmen said:

If you're firing your manager over a Leagues Cup performance, you should have already fired him

Unfortunately, it looks like this discussion needs to start.  Outside of a few players pulling some special individual moments, the team just isn't clicking in this formation and he refuses or is unable to adapt. 

Courtois looks like a really nice guy, but he just doesn't have any ideas.  The team, while not amazing on paper, is a lot better than they've been playing, the league has figured out his one trick pony system.

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28' tom pearce with a wonderful cross to coccaro to make it 2-0...what recruitment a player who was mostly a backup in the third tier of england has a goal and an assist in the first half

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1 hour ago, costarg said:

 

Unfortunately, it looks like this discussion needs to start.  Outside of a few players pulling some special individual moments, the team just isn't clicking in this formation and he refuses or is unable to adapt. 

Courtois looks like a really nice guy, but he just doesn't have any ideas.  The team, while not amazing on paper, is a lot better than they've been playing, the league has figured out his one trick pony system.

Vanni for Courtois. Let's do it. 😂

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